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| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul engine #689 on the turn table, surrounded by railroad employees. The pump house is in the background. |
| Date: | 07 07 1929 |
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| Description: | The Indian Agency House, near the site of Fort Winnebago. A meeting was called to arouse interest in the purchase of the Agency house. |
| Date: | 07 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Miss Mary Prescott and Mrs. William McMahon, grandaughter and great grandaughter, respectively, of Pierre Paquette, appeared at a meeting called by the Wis... |
| Date: | 07 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Supreme Court Justice Fowler at a meeting of Women's Club representatives and other citizens in relation to the proposed purchase of the Agency house. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Columbia County Jail. People are on the sidewalk near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Portage Canal at the Wisconsin River, showing the upper lock. Caption reads: "Upper Lock and Wisconsin River Portage Wis. No. 10". A group of people ar... |
| Date: | 02 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Portage Canal, looking east from the canal bridge. A man is standing on a large platform on the left side of the canal near a... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the canal locks of the Portage Canal. Men are standing at the edge of the locks on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group posing on lawn outside of the large brick building with a steep hip roof. Four men are identified (from left to right) as the turnkey, William MacKen... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A small child stands by a rustic wooden gate in a brick archway at the home of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The child may be Leslyn, the adopted... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an inde... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers gathering at a cucumber receiving station after striking. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos (United Workers),as an indepe... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a filling station near Portage. A man stands while filling his tank. Two boys stand nearby. Under large trees are two pumps, a small... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Clough house, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby. A man is standing and holding the hands of two young girls in front of the fenc... |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a crowd, with costumed participants dressed as Native Americans, fur traders, and Jacques Marquette, at the dedication of the Marq... |
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